At 21 and with only $500 in his pocket, Mathew Leong moved to Stavanger, Norway to join the farm-to-table restaurant Re-naa as a chef de partie. He has since risen to become executive chef of the establishment, which is now the Norwegian city’s only three-Michelin-starred restaurant, and heads its bistro counterpart, Matbaren. Mathew has also represented Singapore at the prestigious Bocuse d’Or Asia and hopes to become the first and youngest chef in Asia to win gold.

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